Is a heartsink space crushing your meetings?

Stephanie Wilding

You’ve almost certainly been in a heartsink space.

They’re often windowless. They’re usually airless. They feel like a beige cell with the company’s last fluorescent light flickering overhead.

Often, there’s a printer or CNC machine chugging away in the corner, which means there’s always someone popping in to feed it, service it or collect something.

And then someone suggests adding a table and a few chairs and voila!

Now it’s a meeting room too. Hardly seems the best space to inspire creativity, does it?

New space. New ideas. Moods are contagious. Hold your meeting in a gloomy, uninspired environment and guess what the likely outcome will be?

That’s why, when it comes to the big discussions that will shape strategy and your business’ future, you need to choose a space that reflects the nature of the conversation.

Bright. Airy. Uncluttered. Energised.

A  space free from interruption. A space with room to stretch your legs.

A space that helps everyone think more freely, more creatively and more productively.

There’s serious evidence behind this.

 When the CIPD looked into the factors that influence meeting effectiveness, the meeting space and facilities were the third most important factor (behind only the meeting leader’s behaviour and goal clarity).

If you want your meetings to generate insights that are truly insightful and ideas that are genuinely fresh, escape to a meeting space that will act as a catalyst, not a dragon creativity.

Or, to put it another way, if you want your meetings to soar, don’t hold them in a heartsink space.

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